Amendments proposed to the Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill - continued	House of Commons
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Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Quentin Davies
Mr Eric Pickles

75

Schedule     3,     page     70,     line     50,     at end insert—

    '(2B) No pension sharing order shall be made in respect of a pension arrangement which has already been the subject of a pension sharing order.'.

   

Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Quentin Davies
Mr Eric Pickles

76

Schedule     3,     page     70,     line     50,     at end insert—

    '(2C) No pension sharing order shall be made in favour of a person aged less than 40 years.'.

   

Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Quentin Davies
Mr Eric Pickles

77

Schedule     3,     page     70,     line     50,     at end insert—

    '(2D) No pension sharing order shall be made which is materially contrary to the interests of any child of the family, or any other child of either of the parties.'.

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Mr David Rendel
Mr Mark Oaten

102

*Clause     44,     page     39,     line     39,     leave out 'and' and insert 'or

( ) that the person was of pensionable age and in receipt of income support; and'.

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Mr David Rendel
Mr Mark Oaten

95

*Clause     45,     page     41,     line     45,     leave out from 'than' to 'beginning' and insert 'five years'.

   

Mr David Rendel
Mr Mark Oaten

96

*Clause     45,     page     41,     line     45,     leave out from 'than' to 'beginning' and insert 'three years'.

   

Mr David Rendel
Mr Mark Oaten

97

*Clause     45,     page     41,     line     45,     leave out from 'than' to 'beginning' and insert 'one year'.

   

Mr David Rendel
Mr Mark Oaten

98

*Clause     45,     page     42,     line     6,     leave out from 'of' to 'mentioned' and insert 'five years'.

   

Mr David Rendel
Mr Mark Oaten

99

*Clause     45,     page     42,     line     6,     leave out from 'of' to 'mentioned' and insert 'three years'.

   

Mr David Rendel
Mr Mark Oaten

100

*Clause     45,     page     42,     line     6,     leave out from 'of' to 'mentioned' and insert 'one year'.

   

Mr David Rendel
Mr Mark Oaten

101

*Clause     45,     page     42,     line     25,     leave out from 'pension' to end of line 27.

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Mr David Rendel
Mr Mark Oaten

92

*Clause     47,     page     44,     line     23,     leave out 'a work-focused interview' and insert 'an interview to advise on employment opportunities, benefit take up, and other issues of relevance to specific claimant groups.'.

   

Mr David Rendel
Mr Mark Oaten

91

*Clause     47,     page     44,     line     28,     at beginning insert—

'(iii) that person is neither severely disabled, nor is a carer of a disabled or elderly person, or of a child under the age of 5'.

   

Mr David Rendel
Mr Mark Oaten

93

*Clause     47,     page     44,     line     28,     after 'interview', insert ', to be held in an appropriate place,'.

   

Mr David Rendel
Mr Mark Oaten

94

*Clause     47,     page     44,     line     28,     after 'interview', insert 'and where appropriate, with a representative advocate present'.

   

Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Quentin Davies
Mr Eric Pickles

78

Clause     47,     page     44,     line     31,     at end insert—

    '(1A) A work focus interview for a person receiving or applying for or having applied for incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance, or disability premia in income support shall only take place once the personal capability assessment provided for in section 56 below has been made.'.

   

Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Quentin Davies
Mr Eric Pickles

80

Clause     47,     page     45,     line     4,     at end insert—

'( ) for determining the training to be provided to persons by whom interviews are to be conducted which shall include training in the principles of personnel management and job placement, and in the types and incidence of mental and physical disability and in recent developments in coping with them.'.

   

Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Quentin Davies
Mr Eric Pickles

81

Clause     47,     page     45,     line     9,     at end insert—

'( ) for determining the facilities which shall be required in any premises where an interview of a disabled person is to be held, other than in the disabled person's home.'.

   

Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Quentin Davies
Mr Eric Pickles

82

Clause     47,     page     45,     line     9,     at end add—

'( ) for providing that persons required to attend interviews which they cannot reasonably be expected to reach on foot shall have reimbursed to them such costs as may reasonably be incurred by them, taking into acount inter alia any degree of disability from which they may suffer in travelling to the place of any work-focused interview and returning home thereafter.'.

   

Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Quentin Davies
Mr Eric Pickles

79

Clause     47,     page     45,     line     24,     after 'regulations' insert 'such matters to include the degree of incapacity, invalidity or physical or mental illness of the person, the recent bereavement of such a person or the illness or incapacity of any child, parent, spouse, partner or other person for whom the person claiming benefit has care.'.

   

Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Quentin Davies
Mr Eric Pickles

83

Clause     47,     page     47,     line     13,     at end insert—

    '(1A) Regulations shall be made specifying the maximum period which may elapse between the refusal of benefit and the hearing and determination of an appeal, and will provide, if the appeal has not been heard and determined within such periods, for the applicant to be deemed to have had his case upheld.'.

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Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Quentin Davies
Mr Eric Pickles

85

Clause     50,     page     49,     line     9,     at end insert 'provided that in making the assessment under (a) and (b) above, account shall be taken of the types of jobs available in the locality considered.'.

   

Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Quentin Davies
Mr Eric Pickles

86

Clause     50,     page     49,     line     28,     at end insert—

    '(4A) Before any regulations under this section are submitted to parliament the Secretary of State shall have consulted with organisations representing disabled people and shall have taken reasonable account of their submissions and concerns.

   

Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Quentin Davies
Mr Eric Pickles

84

Clause     50,     page     49,     leave out lines 29 to 35.

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Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Quentin Davies
Mr Eric Pickles

87

Clause     51,     page     49,     line     40,     leave out from beginning to end of line 17 on page 50.

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Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Quentin Davies
Mr Eric Pickles

88

Clause     52,     page     50,     leave out lines 36 to 39.

   

Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Quentin Davies
Mr Eric Pickles

89

Clause     52,     page     51,     leave out lines 4 to 7.

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Mr Iain Duncan Smith
Mr Quentin Davies
Mr Eric Pickles

90

Clause     53,     page     52,     leave out lines 3 and 4.

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NEW CLAUSES

Obtaining information with respect to compliance with section 3

   

Mr Stephen Timms

NC1

To move the following Clause:—

    '.—(1) Any person appearing to the Authority to be a person who holds, or is likely to hold, information which is relevant to the issue whether an employer is complying, or has complied, with the requirements under section 3 must, if required to do so by the Authority by notice in writing, produce any document which is so relevant.

    (2) To comply with subsection (1) the document must be produced in such a manner, at such a place and within such a period as may be specified in the notice.

    (3) Section 100 of the 1995 Act shall have effect as if references to section 98(1) or 99(1)(b) of that Act included references to subsection (1) or section 4(1)(b).

    (4) Sections 101 to 103 of that Act shall have effect as if references which are or include references to section 98 or 99 of that Act included references to this section or section 4.

    (5) In this section and section 4 "document" includes information recorded in any form, and any reference to production of a document, in relation to information recorded otherwise than in legible form, is to producing a copy of the information in legible form.'

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Sections 10 and 11: application to Scotland.

   

Mr Stephen Timms

NC3

To move the following Clause:—

    '.—(1) This section shall have effect for the purposes of the application of sections 10 and 11 to Scotland.

    (2) A reference to—

(a) the making of a bankruptcy order against a person is a reference to the award of sequestration on his estate or the making of the appointment on his estate of a judicial factor under section 41 of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980;

(b) the estate of a person is a reference to his estate for the purposes of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985 or of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980, as the case may be;

(c) assignment is a reference to assignation;

(d) a person's trustee in bankruptcy is a reference to his permanent trustee or judicial factor, as the case may be;

(e) the commencement of a person's bankruptcy is a reference to the date of sequestration (within the meaning of section 12(4) of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985) or of the judicial factor's appointment taking effect, as the case may be.

    (3) For paragraph (b) of each of subsections (5) and (7) of section 10 there shall be substituted—

"(b) if later, the date of sequestration (within the meaning of section 12(4) of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985) or of the judicial factor's appointment taking effect, as the case may be." '.

Prepared 11 Mar 1999